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The fundamental task facing students of cultural studies is to apply theory to critical practice. Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning through Practice provides readers with the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves. Further, readers will:

Get a basic idea of the historical development of cultural studies

Become familiar with important critics in the British cultural studies tradition

Get a concise but critically aware introduction to key concepts

Become conversant with some of the main areas of interest to cultural studies

Develop awareness of how theory can be transformed into practice

Develop the skills required to produce well-argued and informed projects

See, from numerous practical examples, how concepts work in practice

Each chapter has a short introduction to explain the basic content and a brief description of the main learning goals. Chapters are concluded with brief summaries, references and advice on further reading. The book is full of exercises to motivate readers to respond to the book in an active and enjoyable way.

This book, by combining heuristic thinking with creative-critical approaches, provides undergraduates with an assured, witty, engaging and essential introduction to cultural studies.

David Walton is affiliated with the Universidad de Murcia, and is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies.

To listen to David Walton’s musical response to Adorno's famous essay on jazz, please visit Adorno: Jazz Perennial Fashion . This song accompanies pages 64 to 66 of the book together with a series of questions designed to get readers to evaluate the positive and negative aspects of Adorno's approach.

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A Few Ways You Might Adapt Ideas from Louis Althusser to Cultural Studies

a Dialogue with Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde

PART FOUR: PROBING THE MARGINS, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN: REPRESENTATION, SUBORDINATION AND IDENTITY

Crying Woolf! Thinking with Feminism

Adapting Theory to Explore Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality

The Case of East is East

PART FIVE: HONING YOUR SKILLS, CONCLUSIONS AND 'BEGIN-ENDINGS'

Consolidating Practice, Heuristic Thinking, Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research

An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and cleverTHETimes Higher Education

What a weird and wonderful book. It is the Ronseal of Cultural Studies Literature; it does what it says on the tin... the ideal textbook for Further Education and first year Higher Education Cultural Studies Students... It is also a brilliant revision and essay writing tool for more advanced learners. It is concise, honest and straightforward in its aims and content and witty in its approach... This does not mean however that its content is ‘dumbed down'. It valiantly manages to retain all the highly academic information required for this area of study and does not shy away from using the appropriate terminology and language that Cultural Studies students must familiarise themselves with. The ‘Oversimplification Warnings’, ‘Practice Exercises’, illustrations and ‘Notes’ act as practical or cognitive revision for the body of text rather than as a ‘gutter press’ substitute... this is a highly successful book, in that it has accomplished its intentions, but it is also a motivational book. Its quality and character allow the reader to ‘feel’ the enthusiasm of its author which in turn becomes infectious, instilling in the reader a genuine sense of ebullient perturbationArt/Design/MediaThe Higher Education Authority

It does not attempt to be in any way exhaustive, as it shows a constant awareness of "what's been left out", but, working towards "interpretive independence", it aims to provide students with sufficient notional skills to start doing their own cultural criticism… Like the best cultural studies works, Walton's exhilarating book may leave the student wondering what cultural studies actually is, perhaps undecided about a final definition, but nonetheless confident enough to start practising itATLANTISJournal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies

Ideal for courses linked to the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) laid down by the Bologna process that is transforming university education in Europe, epecially as the author shows a constant awareness of teaching in terms of developing students' critical competenciesJ. Rubén Valdés MiyaresUniversidad de Oviedo

Walton's book is essential reading for both undergraduates and postgraduates. It takes the foundationsl authors of the field and applies them to contemporary examples, which is important in a subject so highly theorised. Unfortunately, at the moment, our Department is moving away from cultural studies and more into the realm of glocal media studies, and therefore we are not able to adopt it at present.

This book's slant toward British cultural studies should be taken into account when considering adoption. The heuristic thinking and practice undertone of the entire text is extremely valuable, though it isn't balanced by deep critical analysis.